Joseph vas dias



J. VAS DIAS.

SUSPENSION BORDER FOR SHOW CARDS, MAPS, ALMANACS, AND THE UKE.

APPLICATION FILED 05019, 1911.

'1 ,309,3 1 9 Patented July 8, 1919.

JOSEPH VAS DIAS, 0F AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

SUSPENSION-BORDER FOR SHOW-CARDS, MAPS, ALMANACS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1919.

Application filed December 19. 1917. Serial No. 207,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knoWn that I, Josnrr-r VAS DIAS, lithographer and paper-manufacturer, subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing at Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspension-Borders for Show-Cards, Maps, Almanacs, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The hanging up and keeping stretched of wall-pictures of any kind, such as posters, shoW-cards, maps, sheet-almanacs and the like, is done, as is known, by means of suspension-borders which, according to requirements, are either fixed alone to the top edge of the sheets as in the case of sheet-almanacs, or fixed on to the top as well as to the bottom edge, as in the case of advertising-posters show-cards and maps.

These borders or frames must have sufficient strength to offer resistance against any deformation of the .paper caused by atmospheric influence, and also must be sufficiently strong to avoid buckling or breaking; the bottom borders, especially, have to be heavy enough to keep pictures smooth and stretched while hanging or while being despatched in rolls.

The suspension borders most often hitherto used consist of a double folded strip of sheet-iron fixed on the top and on the bottom edge of the print, the two parts of which are pinched toward each other by pressure so as to form one half of a hollow suspension border and to keep the sheet to be hung up tight. This arrangement is such as to allow the convex side of the pressed border to come in sight.

When applied to Wall-almanacs consisting of several sheets, the suspension-border may be formed by the aid of a double sheet of thin cardboard of which a cloth-back is adjusted, which border is fixed on to or around the top-edge of the sheet-almanac. Borders of this kind are not in raised relief being flat.

However, these well-known suspensionborders only answer partly the above stated requirements; in the first place for the reason that the high prices of sheet-metal form a drawback to the use of sufficiently strong iron-sheets; secondly, because the use of suspension-borders made of strong sheet-metal impedes the bending and fixing of the metalplate, and in addition to this, the use of borders made of thick iron plates does not improve their aspect= On the other hand, the use of thin metal plates involves the risk of impairing the appearance of the sheets by the bending of the metal plates, due to the small resistance of fered by them, or of the sheets being crumpled up and, frequently, even made unserviceable altogether. If, moreover, the bottom edge is not sufliciently heavy, the edge of the paper is liable to curl up which, of course, would be rather troublesome.

In consequence of these suspension-borders having to be fixed by stamps on the paper and the like, they always adopt the shape of the stamp or punch, while it would offer a neater aspect if the said borders would be given the shape or the character of a frieze inrelief.

The object of my present invention is a suspension-border avoiding the above described drawbacks, and permitting the resistance as well as the weight and the contour of the said suspensi0nborder to be regulated or altered according to requirement. Another characteristic feature being that the attachment of said suspension border to the sheet can be efiected without exercising mechanical pressure.

The suspension-border, according to the present invention, consists of one or more cylindrical or semi-cylindrical or otherwise shaped tubes of rolled-up paper or of any other suitable fibrous material being shaped into rolls or tubes; the said tubes may be filled with some weight-increasing material and the printed sheets are afiixed to same.

The formation of the tubes can be efiected in any suitable way. In manufacturing such tubes of paper or of some other fibrous matter such as linen, I have found it useful to cover the said material with some adhesive substance, have this material rolled up in tubes and allow the adhesive substance to harden on the same.

To increase the weight of these tubes and to enable same to keep thehung-up pictures, maps or the like, stretched and even, the tubes may be filled with some material of greater specific gravity such as concrete, sand, gypsum, iron fillings, lead slacks, stone-chips or the like.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 represents a cross-sectional view of a tubular suspension border embodying my invention, showing a part of the suspended article attached to the tab of the same; and

Fig. 2 represents a modification thereof.

L4. 4 In A The tubular roll is designated by a and may be either cylindrical in shape as shown in Fig. 1 or semi-cylindrical as shown in Fig. :2. WVhatever the form of the roll it is made from a sheet of material which leaves an integral tab 0 depending from the roll for the attachment .of the suspended article 6 by adhesive or other convenient fastening means. As shown in Fig. :2 a smaller tube or roll a, may be interposed between said article and tab and attached adhesively to the latter the article 6 being similarly attached to said depending part 0.

These borders may be covered with fancypaper.

I claim:

I 1. A suspension border for maps and other articles consisting of a roll of foldable nonmetallic fibrous material, said roll being formed from a sheet covered with adhesive material which hardens thereon but permits the adhesive attachment of the suspended article, said roll being also supplied internally with heavier material and having an unwound fiat part of the said sheet for the attachment of said varticle thereto.

:2. A suspension border for maps and other articles consistingofa roll of foldable nonmetallic fibrous material, said roll being formed from a sheet covered with adhesive material which hardens thereon but permits the adhesive attachment of the suspended article, said roll being provided with a depending unwound flat part of the sheet ,for convenience of attaching said article.

3. A suspension border for maps and other articles consisting ofa roll formed from a sheet of non-metallic material and provided with an unwound flat depending part for convenience ofattaching such article.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH VAS DIAS. lVitnesses:

D. vKLEi'EN, M. ALVARADO.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

